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Marlowe's Travesty of Virgil: Dido and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire.(Christopher Marlowe)(Critical Essay)

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From: Comparative Drama
Date: 20000322
Author:STUMP, DONALD

Several recent studies(1) of Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, have focused on its relation to the development of English imperialism. Since the play represents a female ruler from North Africa who is brought down by her love for a male voyager intent on founding an imperial dynasty, the play invites studies of the politics of gender, nationality, and race. Lurking in the background, however, is also a political agenda of a more specific sort. As William Godshalk has suggested, Queen Elizabeth's abortive marriage negotiations with the Duke of Anjou in the ...

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